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...this room, and I don't know if that makes any sense to anybody...If anybody gets this that really cares, just do me a favor...close the management company down that I own, and I'm gonna lie here and wait for that to happen." The singer recently worked on two films--Glitter and WiseGirls--while recording the Glitter sound track, her first album in a $23.5 million-an-album deal with Virgin. Her accountant is apparently feeling fine...
...Ertegun and his partner Jerry Wexler needed three things: a performer to summarize and transcend the blues form; a white singer the kids could call their own; and a writer-producer team to synthesize black music for the mass market that didn?t even know it needed a seismic sonic jolt. With these elements, Ertegun and Wexler knew, they could revolutionize musicmaking and, more important, music listening. Just their luck, and their smarts, they got all three...
...gospel melodies, R&B raunch, a suavely swingin? piano groove ? la Nat Cole and the imposing sound of a big band behind him (though typically he worked with only six sidemen). Oh, and an epochal vocal style that would make him the dominant and longest-lived soul singer of the century. Was Charles, as one of his own albums proclaimed, a "genius"? Eh, who?s to say. But at Atlantic he was the genie let out of their R&B bottle. The cork got lost, and American popular music was never the same...
...white folks by Billy Haley, ushered in what became known as rock ?n roll. An artistic and commercial restlessness sent agreeable tremors through the industry. As Leiber and Stoller could simultaneously produce the Coasters and the Drifters, a performer like Darin could quickly switch from rocker to saloon singer...
...hits. One of these was Leiber and Stoller?s "Smokey Joe?s Cafe." A lurking melodrama in the "Hernando?s Hideaway" fashion (but written a year before that Broadway tune), it?s sung by L&S? L.A. discoveries the Robins. It features an almost maniacally comic attack by lead singer Carl Gardner. The vocal could have come right off the Chitlin Circuit of black vaudeville; imagine Mantan Moreland as a great belter. The production is full, clear and incorrigibly boppin?- Leiber and Stoller, out by the Pacific, showing the Atlantic boys how it?s done. Ertegun was smart enough...